Emerging Women Executives in Health Care

This program is designed for executives— regardless of title—who are stepping into expanded leadership roles, whether through a recent promotion, a significant increase in scope, or without the benefit of formal onboarding for executive-level responsibilities. Participants come from across the health care landscape, including hospitals, health systems, physician practices, insurance providers, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, ministries of health, foundations, and other health-related organizations. It is also designed for women leaders who are committed to investing in their growth and who are actively championing the advancement of other women into senior and executive roles, including:

• Vice Presidents, Assistant Vice Presidents, department directors, and other leaders reporting to the C-suite or Senior Vice President level
• Medical Directors, Clinical Chiefs, Pharmacy or Lab Managers, and other health professionals with responsibility for strategy, resource allocation, staff management, or policy development
• Leaders in compliance, quality, patient and employee experience, HR, communications, marketing, operations, and other key administrative and operational functions

This program supports women health care leaders who are shaping the future of their organizations by leading with purpose, navigating complexity, and creating space for others to thrive. Through an immersive, reflective, and applied learning experience, participants will: 

• Develop deeper self-awareness and a values-based leadership identity to communicate effectively, engage in high-stakes conversations, and manage conflict productively 

• Expand capacity to lead through complexity and change with agility, resilience, and clarity of vision 

• Map and intentionally strengthen professional networks to amplify influence, collaboration, and access to opportunity 

• Apply tools for inclusive team leadership, leveraging diversity, psychological safety, and stages of team development 

• Gain strategic thinking and innovation frameworks to solve systemic problems, surface assumptions, and create meaningful, lasting impact 

As you move higher in your organization, you face a greater breadth of challenges. These require superior leadership and management skills and comfort dealing with ambiguity. This program will provide you with a set of tools and ways of thinking to become a more effective leader. The program will explore:

• The impact of the policy environment on health care systems and the challenges and opportunities facing your organization as a result. This will better equip you to think more creatively about your own and your leadership group’s roles and responsibilities in a rapidly changing environment and to prioritize more effectively
• Cutting edge research on women and leadership to learn what underlies women’s leadership styles and practices and to enhance your own effectiveness as a leader
• Structural, political, cultural and individual attributes of organizations and how recognizing opportunities, managing constraints, and understanding individual and organizational values alignment can enhance your effectiveness
• Methods to recognize opportunities, managing constraints, and understanding how individual and organizational values alignment can enhance your effectiveness
• Skills and strategies in negotiation, managing conflict, coalition-building, and influencing—key attributes fundamental to successful organizational life
• Organizational performance improvement techniques, particularly when such critical values as patient safety and innovation compete for resources and focus
• New management, leadership and change frameworks, models and best practices

Karen Curley (Program Director)

Senior Vice President Client Solutions, The Leadership Development Group, Inc.

Current faculty, subject to change

This program also contributes to the Leadership in Health Care Certificate of Specialization, among others. While each program can be taken independently, completing multiple courses in our portfolio earns the Certificate of Specialization.